Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Story of Pastor Tom Clark
Pastor Tom Clark is dying. His esophageal cancer was diagnosed at the beginning of 2012, and after…
The New Focus on Children’s Rights
What do donor conception, surrogacy, divorce, and adoption have in common? According to the newly-founded International Children’s…
Mary on the Prairie
The city of Bismarck was founded in 1872 in what was then the Dakota Territory, at a…
The View on Waking
Melius enim iudicavit de malis benefacere, quam mala nulla esse permittere. —St. Augustine There is a kind…
Difficult Marriage in A Modern Age
In 1567, the famous reformer Pope Pius V condemned various propositions from the writings of a little…
Explosive Business in North Dakota
The “Official Portal for the North Dakota State Government” lists that commonwealth’s nicknames as the Peace Garden…
The Machine of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
What if someone had access to a mass-surveillance supercomputer that could predict not only acts of terror,…
Children Who Never Play
Students in my history of architecture course are amused to discover that the final exam offers a…
Theology Through Friendship
The recent death of Wolfhart Pannenberg prompted us to look through the long correspondence the German theologian…
A Theory for Tattoos
The motives for tattoos are many, but they all have a common subtext. A tattoo can mark…
InterVarsity Christian Ministry in Trouble for Acting Christian
To protect against discrimination, liberals increasingly seek to discriminate. News broke over the weekend that all twenty-three…
Dogs, Divorce, and Pre-pups
Like, we didn’t see this coming? Pets are becoming the center of custody struggles among divorcing couples.…
Knowing the Trinity
Richard of St. Victor, a 12th-century Scottish theologian, is not exactly a household name in 21st-century Christian…
An Open Letter to Richard Dawkins
Dear Dr. Dawkins, Earlier this week, on Twitter, you drew attention to a troubling fact unknown to…
Politics and the Arts
Jed Perl warns in the August 25 issue of the New Republic of a new threat to…
